If you loved They Call Me Jeeg, try The Forbidden City

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Forbidden City has roughly 7.9× fewer votes than They Call Me Jeeg — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Gabriele Mainetti, and they both carry the outsider, raw mood tags, and they sit in Action / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to They Call Me Jeeg, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Forbidden City is

Here's a film that seems to want to be everything at once. A young man and a foreign girl must unite to search for the girl's sister. Together, they confront Rome's most ruthless criminals. It is certainly... a film.

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